Grow Your Own Food Right Where You Are!
Let’s face it growing your own food can be a mystery, especially if you have never done it before. My passion is to show you how to grow your own fresh organic groceries right where you are!
Let me just say to start; this experience puts a whole new meaning to the saying, "She has a bee in her bonnet." That's just a little hint of how things went yesterday evening when I moved the girls into my shiny new top bar hive. Empty Top Bar Hive, waiting for...
Getting frustrated! When I thought of raising bees, I though many things about how the experience would be. I thought the bees might be a bit scary(yes, sometimes) and I wondered how I would ever find the queen in all those bees.(still wondering) However, I never,...
Our hive was buzzing along beautifully. A little slow on the draw, but steadily moving along. We had a sad and surprising upset however. Instead of cow tipping, someone decided to do some bee hive tipping under the cover of darkness. Now messing with a cow seems much...
We peered into our new bee hive the other day and I have to say that I am amazed at these wonderful insects! We watched them all week performing orientation flights to the hive. This is when they take off, fly in a tight figure 8 and back to the hive again. This sets...
Taking frames out of the Nuc to put in our hive. I am so proud of my Rabbit Shepherd!(my brave & adventurous son) Now, I guess we will have to call him bee shepherd also! See how he got a bee keeping scholarship from the Trinity Valley Bee Keeping Association. We...
Hive in it's permanent position down by the creek behind the community garden. I am sad to report that the swarm I captured decided to find another home. I only had them for two days and was so disappointed to go visit the hive, only to see them gone. It took a few...
Hi there, my name is Anne-Marie, but my friends call me Dash from the -dash- in my name. My homestead journey started out with one prayer. “Please help me get nutritious, organic food for my family.” Wow, I was surprised how God went about answering that prayer! …..Read More!